Monthly Archives: January 2010

Kate McGarrigle has died.  The whole family have produced such a variety of wonderful music.  When you hear this, it’s like two girls singing together in a back room for fun, and that’s what makes it real.  So much music … Continue reading →

Went to see ‘The Road’, the film of Cormac McCarthy’s marvelous book. Films are never as good as books, in my view.  Words are more powerful. Words allow the pictures in your mind to take form and transport you somewhere … Continue reading →

The snow is ankle deep in the driveway and no one can move.  The ugly hummocks and heaps of the everyday world are gone, submerged beneath a blanket – no, a duvet of snow. I know that to many people, … Continue reading →